airpuff en · NOUN
Etymology
From air + puff.
Meanings
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A short, sharp puff of air designed to startle a small animal in a biological experiment.
No airpuff punishment or active removal of residual water from the lickport was used.
2015, Samuel Andrew Hires et al., “Low-noise encoding of active touch by layer 4 in the somatosensory cortex”, in eLife, volume 4, →DOI:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| airpuffs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |